Collaborative Quotes

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.